The pas d’armes was the most theatrical form of the medieval tournament: one knight held a bridge, a gate or a fountain against all comers, under published rules, inside a story borrowed from romance. It flourished in the fifteenth century, from Castile to Burgundy, and it is one of the best-documented settings we have for […]
Two late-medieval fencing masters, one shared tradition — and a body of work that still informs practice today. The World They Inhabited The second half of the fifteenth century was a golden age for the German fencing tradition. The Liechtenauer system, named for the great synthesiser Johannes Liechtenauer, whose cryptic verse Zettel underpinned virtually all […]
A Practical Guide for Attendees What are Multi Instructor Events? A multi-instructor event brings together practitioners from different clubs, lineages, and interpretive traditions for a concentrated period of shared training — typically one to three days. Attendees move between sessions taught by different instructors, each bringing their own source material, interpretive approach, and teaching style. […]
This article arose after my last trip to Munich where I found a helm labelled as a helm for the Joust of Peace. I then found a similar helm in the Kaiserberg Museum in Nuremberg. Pictures below. Reading the text and researching this, it is amazing to me how this is very much like our […]
